Pei Yuanqing said in a hoarse voice: "Li Yuanba, I have changed to a good horse, and I have practiced the dragon head hammer stunt hard over the years, and my martial arts have increased a lot; I'm looking for you to try again? ”

Li Yuanba's eyes shone brightly: "Okay, good!" This, all these years, I have not met, encountered, met a good opponent, positively, just right; Let's go and compare now. ”

Li Shimin hurriedly persuaded them and said: "Yuanba, General Pei is tired from afar, I have already asked people to set up a reception banquet, and it is not too late to wait for dinner." ”

Li Yuanba was a little unhappy, but he didn't force it. Li Shimin invited everyone to the banquet. After everyone sat down, Cheng Zhijie said with a dark face: "King Qin, it's not that my brother relies on the old and sells the old, I say two words to you, don't dislike to listen to it." ”

Li Shimin said with a smile: "It's my honor to be taught by the fifth brother, but it doesn't hurt for you to say it." ”

"King Qin, you like to personally survey the terrain in every battle, you have to change it, as the saying goes, a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall, not to mention that you are still the commander of an army. How dangerous it is today, thanks to Jingde's hard work, and Pei Xing's coincidence, there was no accident; If there are really three long and two short, wouldn't it cost everyone's lives. ”

When the generals heard this, they all nodded yes; Qu Tutong and Yin Kaishan, the two veterans, knelt on the ground and wept bitterly, swearing to persuade them to death.

Li Shimin couldn't resist it, helped the two of them up, and said, "Everyone is kind, I already know; We will definitely learn from this in the future.

But when you think about it, it's amazing to win this first battle! It's dreamy, it's unbelievable. If it weren't for Qu Tutong and them tying up Jingde, how could I take Jingde with me? In the past, Lu Chong and a few others were always asked to follow. Today I will definitely go up the mountain to reconnoitre, and I am destined to encounter this catastrophe.

And why did my father's edict arrive early this morning instead of later? There is no explanation for all this, there is only one answer: it is providential. Those who do not die in great calamities must have a destiny.

If I am destined to meet the destiny of heaven, it is impossible to perish by chance. I cultivate benevolence and virtue, so destiny always blesses me.

I vote for virtue to peach, respect virtue to repay me for Li; It is really providential that the return is so fast, and it seems that the karma of Buddhism is the truth. Whatever you sow, you will bear fruit. This is the case in the world.

I will secretly remember the Mandate of Heaven, cherish it, and continue my path of righteousness and heart, so that the Mandate of Heaven will not abandon me out of boredom.

And what about Wang Shichong? His luck is not as good as ours, because he has done many injustices and has been abandoned by destiny. This time, he failed to sneak attack, but lost nearly 10,000 elite soldiers, and now he is about to wrinkle his brows like an old woman in the palace, right? ”

Everyone laughed and was very excited, as if they were about to win.

As Li Shimin said, Wang Shichong failed to sneak attack, but suffered heavy losses, and for the first time he learned Li Shimin's power. Zheng's morale was greatly dampened. One breath was blocked in his heart, and he couldn't swallow it all the time, and he was furious when he returned to the palace.

Wang Shichong's heart was full of the shame of defeat and dissatisfaction with Li Shimin. He learned the lessons of the first battle in Beibi Mountain, and organized the elite main force into a mobile force, which was directly under the control of his trusted generals, and the team was strictly trained.

In December, the situation in Luoyang City became more and more serious, and hundreds of people were dying of cold and starvation every day. Da Zheng's army also plummeted in combat effectiveness because of insufficient food.

Zheng Guo's generals buzzed like flies; Wang Shichong's eyes were bloodshot and he yelled: "Don't make any noise!" It is useless for you to buzz and quarrel here, and you cannot knock the enemy away. ”

The generals hurriedly bowed their heads and made a look of asking the Holy Lord to make a decision.

Wang Shichong gritted his teeth and said: "As the saying goes, the mourning soldiers will win!" We are now a brigade of mourners. I think Li Mi was so rampant back then, we have been defeated in successive battles, and we are also mourning the army as we are now.

But it was this mourning army that defeated Li Mi; Let us occupy the Central Plains as much as possible, and have the strength to confront Dou Jiande and Li Yuan. Today, we still have to rely on this brigade to defeat Li Shimin and regain our territory.

I have decided to personally lead a surprise attack on Li Yuan's army tomorrow, and everyone must fight bravely to break the enemy's encirclement in one fell swoop. ”

The generals looked at each other, but they didn't dare to disobey, and hurriedly bowed down to receive the order.

The next day, the sky was filled with a thin mist, and Wang Shichong led an army of 20,000 to quietly cross the frozen Luoshui and come to the outside of Li Shimin's military camp.

The lack of a battle for two or three months made the Tang army inevitably a little lax; Many people crave warm bedding and have not yet risen; Zheng Jun had already come to the door.

The left servant of the stage shot Qu Tutong and felt a little uneasy today; Experience tells this 64-year-old veteran with more than 40 years of military experience that there must be a demon when things go wrong! He led the guards to inspect the military camps, and on the way he suddenly met Wang Shichong's team that came to attack the Tang military camp.

At this time, the sky was just dawn, and it was foggy outside, when Qu Tutong found the enemy, the two sides were already very close, he was caught off guard, and hurriedly led the guards to hide in the nearby military camp to resist, and sounded a warning.

Wang Shichong's team came prepared, with Prince Aoyu and Shan Xiongxin as the vanguard, and the two broke up the crowd and smashed open the gate of the camp that was about to close; Immediately after rushing into the barracks, the barracks were suddenly in danger and were about to be breached.

As soon as the gong sounded, there was a great chaos in the Tang camp, and the reaction speed of each army was separated. Although the Tang Army is elite, only the Xuanjia Army can catch up with the gathering speed of the Great Demon Kingdom.

After Li Shimin got the news, he hurriedly led the Xuanjia Army to the rescue, and Cheng Zhijie also led people to rush over from behind.

The enemy's movements were so fast that Wang Shichong was almost unable to react, and his army was directly cut off by the waist before all of them had entered the barracks. Qu Tutong in the camp and Cheng Zhijie in the back took advantage of the situation to wave the army to counterattack, and Wang Shichong suffered another heavy defeat.

Wang Shichong didn't see it well, and hurriedly led the army to retreat, Prince Aoyu and Shan Xiongxin couldn't care about rushing to kill, and hurriedly protected Wang Shichong to break out of the camp and escape.

Li Shimin and Cheng Zhijie led the team to chase after them, and chased them until they reached Luoshui, and saw that there was an enemy brigade of people and horses on the opposite side, so they collected their troops and returned to the camp. Li Shimin asked people to check the harvest again, and more than 6,000 people were captured and killed, and Ge Yanzhang, the general of Dazheng Xiao, was also captured by the Tang army.

Yang Gongqing set up a suspicious array opposite Luoshui, scared off Li Shimin and Cheng Zhijie, and responded to Wang Shichong's embarrassment and fled back. This failure made Wang Shichong lose all confidence, and from then on he retreated in the city, not daring to act rashly.

When Wang Shichong saw that his forces were almost dry and that he could not find a way out on the battlefield, he was very frightened, and the premonition of destruction gripped his heart tightly. He sent his elder brother's son, Wang Wan, the acting king, and Sun Anshi, the minister, to Leshou, the capital of Dou Jiande, Hebei Province, to meet Dou Jiande and ask for reinforcements.

At the beginning, Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande had been friends for a while, but this year Wang Shichong asked Dou Jiande to deal with the Tang Dynasty together; Dou Jiande agreed very well, and also sent troops to take Xiangzhou and Liyang. As soon as Li Shimin sent troops, Xu Yuanlang, who suddenly killed Huazhou with a backhand, took Huazhou, and collected the first broom star of Sui and Tang Dynasty very disregardantly.

As soon as Li Tang's envoy arrived, he severed relations with Wang Shichong; and put Li Shentong, Xu Shiji's father Xu Gai and Princess Tong'an back.

When Wang Wan and the eldest grandson An Shi came to Leshou for help, Dou Jiande also hesitated and convened the ministers to discuss the matter. Some people think that Tang's army is strong, and it is not easy to repair the relationship, and he should not wade into troubled waters again. Some people also think that if the Tang Dynasty destroys Zheng Guo and concentrates on dealing with himself, Xia Guo can't resist it, and he should send troops to help.

Liu Bin, a Chinese scholar, suggested: "Now the world is in chaos, Tang Deguanzhong, Zheng De Henan, Xia De Hebei, forming a three-legged trend. Now the Tang sent a large army to attack Zheng, from autumn to the depths of winter, Tang's army is more and more, Zheng's territory is getting smaller and smaller, Tang is strong and Zheng is weak, Zheng must support it soon. If Zheng perishes, then Xia won't stay long.

Our army might as well pretend to persuade and send troops to rescue Zheng, I will attack from the outside, and Zheng will attack from the inside, and the Tang army will definitely be defeated. After the Tang army retreated, I slowly observed the situation, and if Zheng could attack it, our army would suddenly attack and take it; In this way, I can command the soldiers and horses of the two countries, and take advantage of the exhaustion of the Tang army to attack Guanzhong to the west, and the world can be unified. ”

Dou Jiande was deeply moved by the grand plan he depicted, and decided to end the state of reconciliation with the Tang Dynasty and join the Tang-Zheng War. So, he sent Master Li, the attendant of the Ministry of Rites, to the Eastern Capital, and promised Wang Shichong that he would soon send troops south to rescue. He sent an envoy to Chang'an to ask Li Yuan to stop making peace and end the war.

As soon as Li Yuan heard that Dou Jiande had decided to join the war, he was taken aback, he carefully studied the comparison of the military strength of the two sides, and could not see the hope of victory, so he issued an edict asking Li Shimin to withdraw his troops.

At this time, Wang Xuanying, the crown prince of Dazheng, led thousands of elite soldiers to transport grain from the tiger prison to the eastern capital, and Master Li, the envoy of the Xia Kingdom, was also among them. He was accompanied by Wang Xuanying's general, Li Junxian, the commander of the light car.

Li Junxian turned out to be Li Mi's subordinate, and after surrendering to Wang Shichong, he was very unaccustomed to his personality, and he was always depressed in his heart; This time he went to the Eastern Capital, contacted Li Tang on the way and suddenly launched an attack, detaining all the grain and grass and Master Li, Wang Xuanying only took a dozen people and fled back to Luoyang in a panic.

Li Shimin named Li Junxian as the general of the hussars and the deputy chief of the horse army; And from his mouth, I knew a lot about Luoyang. For example, there is a shortage of grain and grass in Luoyang, and the strength of the army is also declining rapidly.

Everyone's opinions on Wang Shichong are also getting bigger and bigger, and many generals like Li Junxian are fluctuating and ready to surrender.

Of course, he also knew from Master Li that Dou Jiande was preparing to send troops, and had already sent an envoy to Chang'an.